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		<title>By: Tuci78</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tuci78</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From &lt;a href=&quot;http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2009/08/05/4a79c4716da39&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Hahn&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;Publisher, &lt;a href=&quot;http://StatePaper.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatePaper.com&lt;/a&gt; &quot; August 5, 2009.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Publisher: Obama Should Produce Original Birth Certificate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://StatePaper.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatePaper.com&lt;/a&gt;, we know by making this statement we will be instantly tagged as &quot;racist,&quot; &quot;birther,&quot; or other pejorative terms by those who defend the President of the United States. We often defend the President and the job he is doing and are regularly lambasted for being &quot;too liberal&quot; or an &quot;Obama lover&quot; by some of our most prolific critics.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But, here is the issue:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of our country. Article II of the Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen. Without reciting them here, there appears to be some serious questions raised about whether President Obama was born in the United States or Kenya. We have not checked sources, but there are reports that some witnessed his birth in Kenya.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The President&#039;s campaign staff and then his administration have released and placed on the internet a &quot;Certificate of Live Birth.&quot; We do not dispute the validity or correctness of that document as others have tried to do, suggesting the use of computers to alter seals and names. By releasing this document the President agrees that the claims about his status as a natural born citizen is an open, important, public issue.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But, this &quot;Certificate of Live Birth&quot; is simply not the best evidence that the President and his administration could offer to lay to rest any doubt about his status as a natural born citizen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Barack Obama is a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard Law School. All law students study the body of law we call &quot;Evidence.&quot; One of the core tenets of American law is the &quot;best evidence rule&quot; which requires the production of original, or certified copies, of original document to prove a fact. Abstracts and summaries are not original documents.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The President has offered an abstract (Certificate) of his birth, but not an original birth certificate which would be the best evidence of his birth. We need the best evidence so that it can do what the best evidence is meant to do; dispel the doubts about a fact. We need to see the Birth Certificate. That&#039;s the one that is often handwritten and signed by the doctor.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lawyers and legal thinkers will, obviously, argue the finer points of the &quot;Best Evidence Rule&quot; and its applicability to this matter. But, that misses the point. The notion of &quot;Best Evidence&quot; is solidly-grounded in law. This is an important public matter and it seems now that the President has started down the path of offering some evidence (Certificate of Live Birth), he should offer the &quot;best evidence&quot; (Original Birth Certificate) which is the source document for his birth. The document behind the document which has been released. This is what is needed now in the court of public knowledge.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The fact in question here is the constitutional qualification of the President of the United States to hold office. With a simple nod, the President could offer the American people the best evidence, the source document(s), as he learned about at Harvard, and dispel those who question his birth as a natural born citizen. His failure to provide this best evidence, when it could be so easily done, raises only more questions, which fuels an ugly public debate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And now we&#039;ve got a &quot;Liberal&quot; Nebraska newspaper advising Barry to cough up his birth certificate. I guess our Mombsa Messiah is losing even the root weevils.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If he can. Anybody ready yet to watch our TelePrompTer-in-Chief taking the Fifth?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2009/08/05/4a79c4716da39" rel="nofollow">David Hahn</a>, &#8220;Publisher, <a href="http://StatePaper.com" rel="nofollow">StatePaper.com</a> &#8221; August 5, 2009.</p>
<p><b>Publisher: Obama Should Produce Original Birth Certificate</b></p>
<p><i>At <a href="http://StatePaper.com" rel="nofollow">StatePaper.com</a>, we know by making this statement we will be instantly tagged as &#8220;racist,&#8221; &#8220;birther,&#8221; or other pejorative terms by those who defend the President of the United States. We often defend the President and the job he is doing and are regularly lambasted for being &#8220;too liberal&#8221; or an &#8220;Obama lover&#8221; by some of our most prolific critics.</p>
<p>But, here is the issue:</p>
<p>The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of our country. Article II of the Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen. Without reciting them here, there appears to be some serious questions raised about whether President Obama was born in the United States or Kenya. We have not checked sources, but there are reports that some witnessed his birth in Kenya.</p>
<p>The President&#39;s campaign staff and then his administration have released and placed on the internet a &#8220;Certificate of Live Birth.&#8221; We do not dispute the validity or correctness of that document as others have tried to do, suggesting the use of computers to alter seals and names. By releasing this document the President agrees that the claims about his status as a natural born citizen is an open, important, public issue.</p>
<p>But, this &#8220;Certificate of Live Birth&#8221; is simply not the best evidence that the President and his administration could offer to lay to rest any doubt about his status as a natural born citizen.</p>
<p>Barack Obama is a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard Law School. All law students study the body of law we call &#8220;Evidence.&#8221; One of the core tenets of American law is the &#8220;best evidence rule&#8221; which requires the production of original, or certified copies, of original document to prove a fact. Abstracts and summaries are not original documents.</p>
<p>The President has offered an abstract (Certificate) of his birth, but not an original birth certificate which would be the best evidence of his birth. We need the best evidence so that it can do what the best evidence is meant to do; dispel the doubts about a fact. We need to see the Birth Certificate. That&#39;s the one that is often handwritten and signed by the doctor.</p>
<p>Lawyers and legal thinkers will, obviously, argue the finer points of the &#8220;Best Evidence Rule&#8221; and its applicability to this matter. But, that misses the point. The notion of &#8220;Best Evidence&#8221; is solidly-grounded in law. This is an important public matter and it seems now that the President has started down the path of offering some evidence (Certificate of Live Birth), he should offer the &#8220;best evidence&#8221; (Original Birth Certificate) which is the source document for his birth. The document behind the document which has been released. This is what is needed now in the court of public knowledge.</p>
<p>The fact in question here is the constitutional qualification of the President of the United States to hold office. With a simple nod, the President could offer the American people the best evidence, the source document(s), as he learned about at Harvard, and dispel those who question his birth as a natural born citizen. His failure to provide this best evidence, when it could be so easily done, raises only more questions, which fuels an ugly public debate.</i></p>
<p>And now we&#39;ve got a &#8220;Liberal&#8221; Nebraska newspaper advising Barry to cough up his birth certificate. I guess our Mombsa Messiah is losing even the root weevils.</p>
<p>If he can. Anybody ready yet to watch our TelePrompTer-in-Chief taking the Fifth?</p>
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		<title>By: Tuci78</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-56260</link>
		<dc:creator>Tuci78</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tsk. Gone as limp as that stub which serves you in lieu of a phallus, eh, G-string?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Aw!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tsk. Gone as limp as that stub which serves you in lieu of a phallus, eh, G-string?</p>
<p>Aw!</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-56250</link>
		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No.  Keep living in a world that exists only inside your head.  That is all you have.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No.  Keep living in a world that exists only inside your head.  That is all you have.</p>
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		<title>By: Tuci78</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-56213</link>
		<dc:creator>Tuci78</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nah. I&#039;ve offered plenty more than &quot;name calling,&quot; G-boy. It&#039;s just that &quot;name calling&quot; is the optimal response to content-less crap like your posts, isn&#039;t it?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sure makes &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; writhe and spume and sputter like a Baptist confronted with a porn store in his neighborhood, doesn&#039;t it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nah. I&#39;ve offered plenty more than &#8220;name calling,&#8221; G-boy. It&#39;s just that &#8220;name calling&#8221; is the optimal response to content-less crap like your posts, isn&#39;t it?</p>
<p>Sure makes <b><i>you</i></b> writhe and spume and sputter like a Baptist confronted with a porn store in his neighborhood, doesn&#39;t it?</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-56198</link>
		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Once again, all you have to offer is name calling. The only one projecting here is you.  And all you do is whine and try to attack others and it is pretty sad, pathetic and immature.  You obviously lack social skills and good graces of any sort.  I feel like I&#039;m talking  to a child who is throwing a tantrum, and for all I know, I am; this being the internet after all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is only one person here who is angry and that is continuously you.  I&#039;ve been alternately laughing at you and shaking my head in sadness or in just complete disbelief that there are people like you that are so utterly consumed by useless hate.  You have nothing to offer here but ranting and whining and childish but ultimately harmless and silly little taunts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you hadn&#039;t noticed, this thread has otherwise been dead for over a day. The only back and forth has been between us and there is nothing new or of value coming from this conversation, so I&#039;m done here with you and there is no point of wasting time on this or you any further.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All that I&#039;ve learned from this is that you are not someone who is just going to be unhappy and have difficulty accepting the next 4-8 years, but someone who is terminally unhappy and will probably remain disappointed and miserable for the rest of your life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once again, all you have to offer is name calling. The only one projecting here is you.  And all you do is whine and try to attack others and it is pretty sad, pathetic and immature.  You obviously lack social skills and good graces of any sort.  I feel like I&#39;m talking  to a child who is throwing a tantrum, and for all I know, I am; this being the internet after all.</p>
<p>There is only one person here who is angry and that is continuously you.  I&#39;ve been alternately laughing at you and shaking my head in sadness or in just complete disbelief that there are people like you that are so utterly consumed by useless hate.  You have nothing to offer here but ranting and whining and childish but ultimately harmless and silly little taunts.</p>
<p>If you hadn&#39;t noticed, this thread has otherwise been dead for over a day. The only back and forth has been between us and there is nothing new or of value coming from this conversation, so I&#39;m done here with you and there is no point of wasting time on this or you any further.</p>
<p>All that I&#39;ve learned from this is that you are not someone who is just going to be unhappy and have difficulty accepting the next 4-8 years, but someone who is terminally unhappy and will probably remain disappointed and miserable for the rest of your life.</p>
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		<title>By: Tuci78</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-56171</link>
		<dc:creator>Tuci78</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gawd, G-string, you gotta &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;project&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; yourself like a catapult to get by, don&#039;tcha?  My &quot;hate&quot; is a merry, life-sustaining, playful attitude toward the myriads of tyrants, bluenoses, parasites and &quot;vote for a living&quot; political pimps - y&#039;know, like &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - who can&#039;t live without spattering their inoffensive, mind-their-own-business, &quot;Get off my lawn!&quot; neighbors with your endless flow of shit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I &quot;contribute to society&quot; (I suppose; point to something concrete, G-job, and say &quot;that&#039;s society,&quot; willya?) just as I&#039;ve contributed all my life.  What do you do? Work at the DMV?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gawd, G-string, you gotta <b><i>project</i></b> yourself like a catapult to get by, don&#39;tcha?  My &#8220;hate&#8221; is a merry, life-sustaining, playful attitude toward the myriads of tyrants, bluenoses, parasites and &#8220;vote for a living&#8221; political pimps &#8211; y&#39;know, like <b><i>you</i></b> &#8211; who can&#39;t live without spattering their inoffensive, mind-their-own-business, &#8220;Get off my lawn!&#8221; neighbors with your endless flow of shit.</p>
<p>I &#8220;contribute to society&#8221; (I suppose; point to something concrete, G-job, and say &#8220;that&#39;s society,&#8221; willya?) just as I&#39;ve contributed all my life.  What do you do? Work at the DMV?</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-55982</link>
		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am laughing.  I&#039;m not the one here who has nothing but hate to sustain his life.  So, you can just go on railing until the cows come home with your childish threats.  It is sad that is all you have to make yourself feel big. I&#039;m done even trying to encourage you to get involved and do something productive, because it seems all you want to do is rant and throw tantrums, not contribute to society. The only one here who seems to be miserable is you and that seems to be completely by your own choice and doing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am laughing.  I&#39;m not the one here who has nothing but hate to sustain his life.  So, you can just go on railing until the cows come home with your childish threats.  It is sad that is all you have to make yourself feel big. I&#39;m done even trying to encourage you to get involved and do something productive, because it seems all you want to do is rant and throw tantrums, not contribute to society. The only one here who seems to be miserable is you and that seems to be completely by your own choice and doing.</p>
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		<title>By: Tuci78</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-55889</link>
		<dc:creator>Tuci78</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not &quot;the flag,&quot; son. The Constitution.  Bear in mind that it was a bunch of socialists - look up &lt;a href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Pledge_salue.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Bellamy salute&lt;/a&gt;, why don&#039;tcha? - who invented that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I pledge allegiance to the flag&lt;/a&gt;&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bullshit&lt;/a&gt;, explicitly stating &quot;that the purpose of it was to teach obedience to the state as a virtue.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;About as virulently un-American as it&#039;s possible to get. &quot;Obedience to the state&quot; my ass!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And of course I &quot;don&#039;t respect the democratic process and...don&#039;t respect the will of the voters.&quot;  When the hell has the majority &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;ever&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; been right on &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;anything?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Throughout the history of these United States, the popular majority has fucked up every goddam time they&#039;ve gotten their way.  I quote:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;&lt;i&gt;Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;It is the aim of the Bill of Rights, if it has any remaining aim at all, to curb such prehensile gentry. Its function is to set a limitation upon their power to harry and oppress us to their own private profit &lt;b&gt;The Fathers, in framing it, did not have powerful minorities in mind; what they sought to hobble was simply the majority.&lt;/b&gt; But that is a detail. The important thing is that the Bill of Rights sets forth, in the plainest of plain language, the limits beyond which even legislatures may not go. The Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, decided that it was bound to execute that intent, and for a hundred years that doctrine remained the corner-stone of American constitutional law.&lt;/i&gt;&quot;  (H.L. Mencken)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So laugh all you want, putzie.  If eventually you &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; learn &quot;the proper role of government in civil society,&quot; you will be as dead to your &quot;Liberal&quot; &lt;i&gt;sputniki&lt;/i&gt; as if you had suddenly taken a bullet to what you&#039;re presently using in lieu of a brain, and you will be gripped by such a paroxysm of shame and remorse that I expect you to be wearing the mental equivalent of sackcloth and ashes for the rest of your miserable life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not &#8220;the flag,&#8221; son. The Constitution.  Bear in mind that it was a bunch of socialists &#8211; look up <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Pledge_salue.jpg" rel="nofollow">the Bellamy salute</a>, why don&#39;tcha? &#8211; who invented that &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute" rel="nofollow">I pledge allegiance to the flag</a>&#8221; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance" rel="nofollow">bullshit</a>, explicitly stating &#8220;that the purpose of it was to teach obedience to the state as a virtue.&#8221;</p>
<p>About as virulently un-American as it&#39;s possible to get. &#8220;Obedience to the state&#8221; my ass!</p>
<p>And of course I &#8220;don&#39;t respect the democratic process and&#8230;don&#39;t respect the will of the voters.&#8221;  When the hell has the majority <b><i>ever</i></b> been right on <b><i>anything?</i></b></p>
<p>Throughout the history of these United States, the popular majority has fucked up every goddam time they&#39;ve gotten their way.  I quote:</p>
<p>&#8220;<i>Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is the aim of the Bill of Rights, if it has any remaining aim at all, to curb such prehensile gentry. Its function is to set a limitation upon their power to harry and oppress us to their own private profit <b>The Fathers, in framing it, did not have powerful minorities in mind; what they sought to hobble was simply the majority.</b> But that is a detail. The important thing is that the Bill of Rights sets forth, in the plainest of plain language, the limits beyond which even legislatures may not go. The Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, decided that it was bound to execute that intent, and for a hundred years that doctrine remained the corner-stone of American constitutional law.</i>&#8221;  (H.L. Mencken)</p>
<p>So laugh all you want, putzie.  If eventually you <b><i>do</i></b> learn &#8220;the proper role of government in civil society,&#8221; you will be as dead to your &#8220;Liberal&#8221; <i>sputniki</i> as if you had suddenly taken a bullet to what you&#39;re presently using in lieu of a brain, and you will be gripped by such a paroxysm of shame and remorse that I expect you to be wearing the mental equivalent of sackcloth and ashes for the rest of your miserable life.</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
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		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, you&#039;ve explained yourself and your motivations fine enough.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I do find it amusing this pretentious &quot;wrapping yourself in the flag&quot; argument that you haters make while at the same time you can&#039;t accept the results of a duly won election, just because you don&#039;t like who won.  So you don&#039;t respect the democratic process and you don&#039;t respect the will of the voters and you really don&#039;t seem much interested in civil society.  So yes, I do dismiss you as simple xenophobic hatred and it comes across as you just trying to couch it in something else to justify your feelings.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Your &quot;simply destroy you&quot; attack I&#039;ll just dismissively laugh off.  That is great that you feel the need to have to portray yourself as so smugly superior to the rest of the world and that is your right, but I&#039;m not going to play along.  It just comes off as someone trying to fluff themselves up to cover up for their own insecurities to me. Go live your life in peace.  If you are unhappy with elected officials, get involved yourself and run for office.  There are lots of viable 3rd-parties out there and do your best to sell your views and solutions to the voters.  That is the proper role of government in civil society, so if you truly care about it so much, then participate instead of just pontificate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, you&#39;ve explained yourself and your motivations fine enough.  </p>
<p>I do find it amusing this pretentious &#8220;wrapping yourself in the flag&#8221; argument that you haters make while at the same time you can&#39;t accept the results of a duly won election, just because you don&#39;t like who won.  So you don&#39;t respect the democratic process and you don&#39;t respect the will of the voters and you really don&#39;t seem much interested in civil society.  So yes, I do dismiss you as simple xenophobic hatred and it comes across as you just trying to couch it in something else to justify your feelings.</p>
<p>Your &#8220;simply destroy you&#8221; attack I&#39;ll just dismissively laugh off.  That is great that you feel the need to have to portray yourself as so smugly superior to the rest of the world and that is your right, but I&#39;m not going to play along.  It just comes off as someone trying to fluff themselves up to cover up for their own insecurities to me. Go live your life in peace.  If you are unhappy with elected officials, get involved yourself and run for office.  There are lots of viable 3rd-parties out there and do your best to sell your views and solutions to the voters.  That is the proper role of government in civil society, so if you truly care about it so much, then participate instead of just pontificate.</p>
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		<title>By: Tuci78</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/52977/blaming-the-media-for-the-birthers/comment-page-1#comment-55867</link>
		<dc:creator>Tuci78</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, thanks. It&#039;s not like I haven&#039;t been making a concerted and purposeful effort to express my hatred - and it&#039;s a coldly rational hatred, G, as implacably founded upon my reasoned appreciation of and carefully considered regard for the integrity of the Constitution and the proper role of government in civil society as was the impulse behind the actions of another physician, John Locke, in writing his &lt;i&gt;Two Treatises of Government&lt;/i&gt; (1689).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But of what I have, G, you and your fellow Obamaphile &lt;i&gt;fellahin&lt;/i&gt; neither want nor value nor even remotely understand anything beyond what you would like to dismiss as simple xenophobic hatred.  I&#039;ve come to the conclusion that if specimens such as yourself could really perceive the motivations of a constitutionalist - and I suppose it&#039;s possible, but with your thought-blocking predispositions, it ain&#039;t at all likely - it would be impossible for you to acknowledge such motivations, as for you even to honestly consider their quality and character would necessarily oblige to put your own against them in comparison, and that would simply destroy you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, thanks. It&#39;s not like I haven&#39;t been making a concerted and purposeful effort to express my hatred &#8211; and it&#39;s a coldly rational hatred, G, as implacably founded upon my reasoned appreciation of and carefully considered regard for the integrity of the Constitution and the proper role of government in civil society as was the impulse behind the actions of another physician, John Locke, in writing his <i>Two Treatises of Government</i> (1689).</p>
<p>But of what I have, G, you and your fellow Obamaphile <i>fellahin</i> neither want nor value nor even remotely understand anything beyond what you would like to dismiss as simple xenophobic hatred.  I&#39;ve come to the conclusion that if specimens such as yourself could really perceive the motivations of a constitutionalist &#8211; and I suppose it&#39;s possible, but with your thought-blocking predispositions, it ain&#39;t at all likely &#8211; it would be impossible for you to acknowledge such motivations, as for you even to honestly consider their quality and character would necessarily oblige to put your own against them in comparison, and that would simply destroy you.</p>
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